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What is eating my palm fronds?! (Australia)

GarthR

By GarthR
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Good afternoon excellent palm friends. 
 

I have a bit of a conundrum for the detectives in the community. 
I am located in Victoria Australia and Thrace recently bought a house with a lovely palm in the backyard. 
 

Unfortunately when it is windy, the palm will drop fronds. It appears something is eating the fronds and the higher wind just causes them to fall off. I’m loosing around 2 to 4 each month on average. Some of the ends look more freshly eaten than others. 
 

I was thinking maybe this is the work of rats or even Australian native possums. Any advice would be hugely appreciated!!! 

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Tyrone Grand Master

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Welcome to Palmtalk.

Ive never seen such damage to any Phoenix like that. I’d be suspecting rats. Possibly rats bored out of their brain that just sit there chewing for hours.

A motion sensitive camera with infra red would pick them up, but not many people have that sort of gear. I hope you find your culprit then can actually do something about it. 

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Tyrone said:

Welcome to Palmtalk.

Ive never seen such damage to any Phoenix like that. I’d be suspecting rats. Possibly rats bored out of their brain that just sit there chewing for hours.

A motion sensitive camera with infra red would pick them up, but not many people have that sort of gear. I hope you find your culprit then can actually do something about it. 

Thank Tyrone! 
Im guessing that rats wouldn’t get any nutritional value from eating fronds? Maybe nesting or just bored as you say. 

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